The Woodwork

New camera, lens, and software…

First D3 photo
North Beach, San Francisco, California
Nikon D3, Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S
1/15sec @ f/2.8, iso 420, 14mm (14mm)

[There is a jump.]

I noticed in the release notes of the Mac OS X 10.4.10 update today:

Adds RAW image decoding support for the following cameras: Panasonic DMC-LX1, Panasonic DMC-LX2, Leica M8, Leica D-LUX 2, Leica D-LUX 3, Fuji S5 Pro, Nikon D40x, and Canon EOS 1D Mk III.

Since Apple Aperture uses the same RAW decoding. That means that [...]

Some of you remember my my strange hack for getting the LX1 working in Aperture.
A year later, and I still have to do that. This model has since been replaced with the Panasonic DMC-LX2 (a.k.a. Leica D-LUX 3) which on paper sounds like this same trick should work for the RAW files. I don’t know, [...]

I lost all my photos today.
The net result is I lost about one and a half months of photos permanently (around 1000 images), about six months of originals that haven’t been burned yet to disk, lost days of work, and shot up my entire backup regiment.
I’m also one crash/corruption from losing everything.

Canon enthusiast, Ben Long, posted a nice little article on how to customize Aperture’s book printing features.
That’s pretty cool because I haven’t really had a chance to mess with the book layout capabilities yet (except to note that it puts iPhoto to shame).

The article is a shorter version of Ben’s new book on Aperture.

I haven’t [...]

I found this article about Aperture’s future in ThinkSecret.
Because of all the misconceptions in the MacRumors discussion of it, I decided to post the link without any commentary in order to encourage people to actually read the article.
In any case, the rumor and its assorted fallout has generated a lot of discussion in the photographic [...]

In order to get the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1 (or Leica DIGILUX-2) to work in Aperture you first have to convert it to DNG using Adobe DNG Converter. Then you follow these directions which a commenter provides the trick.

Open “/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/\
Versions/A/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/Versions/\
A/Resources/Raw.plist” as an administrator.
Search “DMC-LC1” and copy the chunk of XML in there
Replace the “DMC-LX1” with “DMC-LC1” [...]

Here is a small Aperture tip I forgot to mention.
I work on Aperture on two machines, my Powerbook G4 and my girlfriend’s PowerMac G5 when I can sneak in some time. One problem I ran into was finding that the keywords (and also various export settings) I have set up in Aperture are not carried [...]

(Thanks to the people of this Flickr thread for informing me of this.)
It looks like Apple caved into all hearsay by photographers and is releasing a new version of Aperture catered to them.
The major thing to note, IMO, is that Aperture 1.1 will be a universal binary and available as a free update, paving my [...]

Drew mentioned that Apple released an update to Aperture. This is probably the first of many though don’t expect anything major:

White balance adjustment accuracy and performance
Image export quality
Book and print ordering reliability
Auto-stacking performance
Custom paper size handling

Aperture depends on the ImageIO Framework to do the file handling and Core Image to do the majority of the [...]